Hats off to Mayor Barletta of Hazleton, PA
From The Stein Report:
For once the ACLU is meeting up with someone who’s not backing down plus the good Mayor is getting some big honcho assistance.
In this case, Hazleton has not caved. Quite the contrary, it has girded its loins for battle. It has engaged as chief defense counsel, Kris W. Kobach, formerly Attorney General John Ashcroft’s chief adviser on immigration law. Also, Mountain States Legal Foundation and the Federation for American Immigration Reform have volunteered staff and lawyers to defend the town’s position.
I also like this bit in the story:
Providing for the welfare of local citizens is the very essence of municipal government. The ACLU effort to replace government by the town council with government by an unelected judge is a direct attack on the civil rights of all citizens of Hazleton. The court which ultimately dismisses the ACLU attack on Hazleton should also award serious fees and costs against the ACLU and the Puerto Rican group in favor of the town and its beleaguered taxpayers.
Hazelton: The people vs. the ACLU?Commentary?The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper
Awesome. I’ve been following the Hazleton sitaution carefully. I’ll have to post this tomorrow (with appropriate credit)
Comment by TrekMedic251 — September 19, 2006 @ 7:30 pm
Hazleton is located way up in the coal mining hills of Pennsylvania. Good, salt-of-the-earth people there who have known the extremes of poverty and prosperity. It’s the wrong place to try and start a foreign republic in exhile.
Back in the ’70s I marched in a drum and bugle corps that found much competition in those hills. I had a huge crush on a girl from the Hazleton Highlanders Drum and Bugle Corps.
Comment by snakeeater — September 21, 2006 @ 4:27 pm